Mohanad Shareef Hammadi

Mohanad Shareef Hammadi (1988-) was an al-Qaeda in Iraq member who was arrested in the United States in 2011 for attempting to buy a sniper rifle and Stinger missiles for the Iraqi insurgents.

Biography
Mohanad Shareef Hammadi was born in 1988 in Ba'athist Iraq, and Waad Ramadan Alwan claimed that the two were related. Hammadi and Alwan were both involved with the Iraqi insurgents during the fighting against the NATO coalition after 2003, and Alwan was arrested by the Iraqi government for planting an IED on a road; he had a spare tire, leading to his arrest. Hammadi was recruited by Alwan to assist him in procuring weapons from the United States to supply al-Qaeda in Iraq during the Iraq War; the two men arrived in the USA as "refugees" in 2009, and they settled in Bowling Green, Kentucky. In the summer of 2011, Hammadi and Alwan were arrested for attempting to provide material support to al-Qaeda.